Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were men of the 1st Cavalry Division, which numbers among its famed units the 7th Regiment, once wiped out with Custer on the Little Big Horn. The troops who fought their way onto Los Negros were the 5th Regiment, trained in cavalry maneuvers on the Mexican border but now operating as infantry. It had been nostalgic months since they had seen a horse...
...Sixth were men of the southwest U.S., Indians from 20 Arizona and New Mexico tribes. The Marines were the valiant 1st Division, veterans of Guadalcanal...
...afternoon, in a village near Cassino, German soldiers walked up to the door of a battalion command post, clicked heels, saluted snappily and called out: "1st der Herr Hauptmann da?" The answer was always the same: "Ja, der Hauptmann ist hier." Each German strode confidently into the building-and out of the war, a prisoner...
Before the U.S. was at war, Holland Smith was a corps commander. He was training not only his marines but also the 1st Army Division in amphibious operations. Later he trained the 9th Army Division. But when the doughboys fought well on beach heads in Africa, Sicily, Italy, General Smith only read about it. In 1942 he was transferred to the West Coast, where he gave postgraduate training courses in amphibious warfare to the 7th Army Division (before it went to Attu), the 3rd Marine Division (which took Bougainville), the five regiments which landed on Kiska...
Subarctic Series. Brooklyn's left field had nothing on the W.S.L. for enthusiasm. Shouting sailors crowded the foul lines, jeering at umpiring officers. Some afternoons, $500 changed hands-a quarter of all the money in the fleet. The outstanding star was Seaman 1st Class Joe Sienko, a husky twirler who learned baseball in a Catholic Youth league in Massachusetts. Behind his pitching on the Fourth of July, the Navy All-Stars walked away with the W.S.L. World Series, whipping a picked Merchant Marine nine...